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Smith for three?!

True.

We should be down by 15 points or more. If we can get our heads out of our backsides we've got a shot at this...

We're playing like crap, yet it's a two possession game.

FFS! When they miss a 3-pointer you got to get the damn rebound.

The defender jumped right in front of green and they call it offensive - that's crap

I think a red shirt is very likely for Jerome.

On the pre-game Fischer said Thompson did (does) have a severe concussion. Also, once again suggested Hunter likely won't play this season.

Well, that was fun!

Ball game!

College refs are just incompetent, NBA refs are corrupt.

I wonder if NBA Scouts have ever told a player he needs to work on his free throws?

... And the Lone Ranger, too

If we can just get over the hump....

UL always extends the lead with a 3 when we get within a bucket (at least it seems that way).

Smith is actually having a pretty productive game.

Why is it you can steamroll a shooter as long as you block the shot?

We're giving up entirely too many second-chance shots

A little helter skelter going on out there...

+1000000

All in all, we're in pretty good shape. That was our first foul of the game, and we are bound to start hitting some shots.

We've missed all 4 or 5 of our 3-pt shots, they've made 3. We just aren't a good shooting team.

I thought I saw him sitting behind the bench.... Must have been some one else (maybe a recruit?).

This is a very valid point. Players have to improve as their careers progress and one-year rentals must be major contributors. I don't like being a team whose success is highly dependent on freshmen. IMO, the loss of Hunter has really thrown a monkey wrench into being able to predict our success. We know Rob is already a pretty good PG who will be around for a while. If Jerome is as good as we have been led to believe, I'd feel a lot more confident about the future (not that I'm pessimistic about it as is). The problem is we just don't know, unfortunately. The same goes for Race as well. Forrester and Anderson are more typical freshmen who need experience before we can have an idea of what they might be capable of. Thus far the sophomores and juniors just haven't shown that they are going to be long-term answers. I think a few can be, but they really need to show it.

It seems like the big ten has 3 or 4 teams ranked unrealistically high every season. Like last week when our sh*tty team gave UM a good game, it was obvious they (UM) wasn't very good. I don't follow college football very closely at all, but I use our team as a good barometer for how good the other BT teams are - if they don't beat us convincingly, they're probably not that good.